Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Joey Hess wrote: > > However, dpkg 1.8 implements dpkg-statoverride --import. We decided not > > to go that route, so why? > > Because I got convinced that suidmanager is not capable to figure out > if something is an overide or a default.
That's very odd, as --import uses that very heuistic itself. > If we do decide to go that route and use the package==user|local > heuristic to check for overrides we still need to add a new step: > new packages not to unregister the statoverride that was imported from > suid.conf so it won't keep cluttering the db. I didn't think new packages would call statoveride at all. -- see shy jo